
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, March 16, 1990                   TAG: 9003162882
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-1   EDITION: EVENING 
SOURCE: MIKE HUDSON STAFF WRITER
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Medium

$100,000 FOR TAP PROPOSED

The United Way of Roanoke Valley has proposed giving a one-time grant of about $100,000 to Total Action Against Poverty from its 1990 fund drive and then continuing talks about whether TAP will join the United Way.

United Way Executive Director Robert Kulinski said the agency has sent a "talking paper" outlining its proposal. He emphasized that the proposal is tentative and talks between the two agencies will continue. "This is not a done deal," he said.

He said the one-time grant is a way for United Way to move quickly in the short term to help TAP, which is trying to rebound from a fire that destroyed its headquarters in Northwest Roanoke Dec. 23. Then talks about TAP membership could continue in the long term, he said.

Under the proposal, TAP would proceed with a fund-raising campaign in 1990. TAP would avoid heavy fund-raising in the business community during the fall when the United Way campaign is in full swing, and it would actively participate in the United Way drive.

Ted Edlich, TAP's executive director, said the proposal "is being discussed seriously. But I really don't want to comment on that process right now."

Kulinski said the $100,000 figure is not definite. It could change depending, among other factors, on how much is raised by United Way's 1990 campaign.

TAP is preparing to launch a capital campaign to pay for a new home.

The agency has been seeking new funding sources as the federal dollars that have supported it during its first quarter century have begun to dry up. Its first annual campaign for private contributions, started in the spring of 1989, has raised well over its goal of $350,000.

by CNB